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Journal of Bone and Joint Infection is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 2206-3552Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 136 / 597 | 77th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 119 / 340 | 65th | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 167 / 361 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection is Q1 in Surgery (rank 136 of 597), Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 119 of 340) and Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 167 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.659, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,078 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection is published by Copernicus Publications. Its ISSN is 2206-3552.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 2.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #98 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection published 59 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.9%), Germany (14.8%) and Netherlands (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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